Apapa Road of ‘death’ claims journalist’s life
The late Agbolade The deplorable condition of Apapa Road linking the nation’s largest seaport is daily taking its toll on human lives and businesses in the Apapa axis of Lagos State, particularly as...
View ArticleMarine engineer gets 15-year jail term for beating wife to death
Justice Raliat Adebiyi of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a 38-year-old marine engineer, Iheanacho Nkem to 15 years imprisonment for battering his wife, Regina to death. Delivering...
View ArticleALGON, NUT trade words over teachers’ strike in Delta
NUT Members of the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) and Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) in Delta State have engaged in a war of words over the ongoing teachers’ strike. While the...
View ArticleSouth West Hausa leaders, AYF warn against reprisal attacks over Ife crisis
Another account said the two communities were fighting over a married woman who had been married to an Hausa man but was having an affair with a Yoruba man. The leaders of Hausa communities in the...
View ArticleHarvest of killings in Edo
The late Afegbua • Gunmen kill Edo council ex- chairman, others Gunmen yesterday killed the former Chairman of Etsako East Local Council of Edo State, Suleiman Afegbua, along the busy Benin-Auchi-Okene...
View ArticleBorno PDP backs Makarfi as Ondo opposes peace with Sheriff
Ahmed MakarfiParty moves to sack A’Ibom senator for joining APC A delegation of the Borno State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) yesterday paid a solidarity visit to the Ahmed Makarfi-led...
View ArticlePolice arrest FESTAC’s dreaded kidnap kingpin
Policemen attached to FESTAC Divisional headquarters, Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos State have arrested a suspected leader of a kidnap gang that has been terrorising residents of FESTAC Town and its...
View ArticleTrainee installation engineer slips from mast, seeks help for treatment
Mast Joy crashed for a mast installation trainee, Mr. Gabriel Ojeniyi, after falling from a 20-meter communication mast. The accident left series of fractures, which have made him to seek medical...
View ArticleHausa community, police sue for peace, tolerance in Lagos
The Arewa leaders present a plaque to Aderanti After the bloody crisis, which broke out between the Yoruba and Hausa communities in the Sabo area of Ile-Ife in Osun State, that resulted to the loss of...
View Article‘New environmental sanitation law for the good of all’
PHOTO: ekekeee.com The Special Adviser on Civic Engagement to the Lagos State Governor, Honourable Kehinde Joseph, has said that the new Environmental Management and Protection Law of Lagos State is...
View ArticleDrug suspect excretes 66 wraps of substance at Lagos Airport
Anukaenyi Bob-Manuel Ogochukwu, has been arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos by narcotics agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for allegedly...
View ArticleSoludo commends Obiano over Anambra economy
Willie Obiano A former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, Prof. Chukwuma Soludo, has commended Gov. Willie Obiano of Anambra over his achievements in the area of economy within three years in office....
View ArticleIgala youths urge Buhari to name Ocholi’s replacement
Late James Ocholi A group, Ojuju Agbadufu Igala has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to name a replacement for the former Minister of State for Labour and Employment, James Ocholi, one year after his...
View ArticleSuicide bombers kill JTF member, three villagers in Borno
Human rights group wants Amnesty International expelled from Nigeria The Borno Police Command said two female and a male suicide bombers killed a civilian JTF and three villagers after the strapped...
View ArticleDelta government, teachers disagree over strike
PHOTO: deltaanalyst.wordpress • Okowa threatens to invoke “no work, no pay” • Chief judge condemns burning of court Teachers in Delta State have disagreed with the government over the continuation of...
View ArticlePolice arrest two over killings in Edo State
The late Afegbua • Govt offers scholarship to slain ex-council chairman’s child There is a cloud of anxiety in the air across Edo State over recent killings arising from suspected assassination and...
View ArticleOndo PDP, APC disagree over local councils dissolution
Akeredolu The Ondo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has appealed to the Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN) to allow the 18 local government councils to discharge their duties as...
View ArticleObaseki asks security agents to arrest ex-council boss’ killers
Nigerian Police Promises scholarship for daughter Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has urged the security agents to apprehend the killers of the ex-chairman of Etsako East Local Council, Suleiman...
View Article2,000 displaced in fresh Ebonyi communal clash
PHOTO: Ebonyi State Goverment No fewer that 2,000 indigenes of Oferekpe Enyigba of Izzi clan in Izzi Local Council of Ebonyi State have been displaced following an attack by people of Enyibichiri in...
View ArticleTension as Fulani herdsman murders farmer in Oyo over cattle
PHOTO: livestockandenvironment.wordpress.com • Woman stabbed, hospitalised, houses razed • How to end clashes, by U.S. envoy A Fulani herdsman at the weekend killed his landlord and farmer, Musliu Aliu...
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